Sailing voyage game

Abstract

In a sailing game, a number of movable land masses each having a habor therein for placement upon a game board. At least two types of sailing vessels, each having different navigational abilities when moving over the game board. Wind speed and direction indicators for determining the possible movements of the vessels during each turn, wherein all vessels on the game board, and not within a harbor, must be subject to the indicators. Facility and buoy cards acquired by each player allow the player to alter the effects of the wind speed and direction indicators upon his vessel. The winner being the first individual to navigate his vessel from the home harbor to all of the other harbors and return back to the home harbor.

I claim: 
     
       1. A sailing game for at least two players comprising: a game board having a playing surface divided into a predetermined number of spaces;   a plurality of game pieces, one of said pieces to be moved about the game board by each player, each of said pieces having distinguishing indicia thereon, said plurality of game pieces further comprising two distinguishable classes of game pieces consisting of racing game piece vessels which must travel around the shoal areas and cruising game piece vessels which may travel over shoal areas;   a random selection means for determining direction and distance of piece movements on the board;   a plurality of shoal areas, said shoal areas consisting of free standing shoals which may be placed anywhere on the board and harbor shoals which outline the inner surface of each harbor;   a plurality of movable land masses adapted to be placed on the board; and   at least one harbor designated on each of the movable land masses, boundaries of said harbors being defined so as to form a perimeter defining a plurality of spaces on the game board that are within each harbor, each of said harbors being located on a portion of the perimeter of a land mass such that the rotational orientation of a land mass changes the position of the designated harbor relative to the game board said harbors defining a general course of play to be followed by the players, each player determining a preferred sequence of harbor stops as the game piece proceeds to each harbor.   
     
     
       2. The invention of claim 1 wherein the spaces on the game board are receptacles and the land masses and harbors are defined by a plurality of markers adapted to be placed within said receptacles. 
     
     
       3. The invention of claim 2 further comprising a group of facility cards, each of said cards having indicia thereon designating an alteration of the effects of the direction and distance randomly selected upon a game piece. 
     
     
       4. The invention of claim 3 further comprising: a plurality of facility card positioning areas, each of said positioning areas corresponding to one of the harbors, each positioning area adapted to display a selection of facility cards, said selection being less than the complete array of facility card types, the harbors being definable by the facility cards available at each of said harbor, said harbors including;   fuel harbors having fuel facility cards obtainable by players within the fuel harbor, said fuel facility cards enabling a player to move a game piece a predetermined number of spaces in any direction; and   anchor harbors having anchor facility cards which enable the card holder/player to reduce the number of spaces his game piece need move during a given turn.   
     
     
       5. The invention of claim 4 further comprising: a tracking means for recording the harbors each piece has entered, and determining when a player's piece has traveled to each harbor prerequisite to winning the game, and   a line of demarcation across each harbor entrance for defining the boundaries of the harbor and establishing when a game piece is within the harbor.   
     
     
       6. The invention of claim 5 wherein said tracking means comprises a plurality of token sets, each set being visually associatable with a game piece, whereby a game piece entering one of the harbors may leave a token from its associated set at said harbor. 
     
     
       7. The invention of claim 6 wherein said random selection means further comprises: a wind direction indicator to limit the direction in which the pieces are moved; and   a movement indicator having a plurality of areas, two of said areas limiting the use of facility cards during the next movement of the pieces, the remaining areas having numbers thereon and indicating varying distances of movement.